TO OUR FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS:
Thank you for taking the time to visit the public section of our web site. Your Palm Bay firefighters need your help. Contract negotiations between your firefighters and the City of Palm Bay have turned more than sour. The city is looking to gut the very core of your firefighters benefit package and retirement plan. In an effort to work with our city, your Firefighters offered a wage and longevity freeze, offered benefit concesssions and made significant strides to reduce the amount of overtime in the Fire-Rescue Department. This, on top of concessions in the areas of Health Insurance, Furlough Time, and Overtime calculations over the past two years that your firefighters did not have to make. Your Palm Bay firefighters waived a Florida Statute that would have otherwise required our city to pay wage increases effective October 1, 2009, a tremendious savings to the city in and of itself. Your Palm Bay Firefighters are reasonable people being treated unreasonably and unfairly by our city leaders. Some of these leaders are placing your Palm Bay firefighters in a poor light within our community by spreading false accusations and half truths; all designed to degrade and break your Palm Bay firefighters. Please contact our business office at 321-723-3036 to get the facts and to see how you can offer your help and assistance.
Thank you for your friendship and support.
Palm Bay Fire-Rescue Responded to over 10,200 Emergency Calls during 2009
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ARE YOU INTERESTED IN MAKING A RUN FOR PALM BAY CITY COUNCIL IN NOVEMBER 2010? IF SO, THEN THE PALM BAY PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS WANT TO TALK TO YOU. WHY NOT CONTACT US AND LETS MEET AND TALK. PLEASE CALL OUR OFFICE AND SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT.
Our organization represents the Firefighters within the Palm Bay Fire Department. We represent the firefighters in labor matters with the City of Palm Bay. Our views and opinions are not necessarily those of the Palm Bay Fire Department or of the City of Palm Bay. While we represent the members in labor matters, we also are very involved in public activities. We sponsor a wide variety of youth sports activities and other scholastic functions within Palm Bay's city limits; we support the South Brevard Sharing Center with clothing and food drives at various times of the year; we hold an annual Boot Drive for Jerry's Kids and the Muscular Dystrophy Association; and we make a variety of donations throughout the year to local, state and national charities and fund raising events. We appreciate the support our organization receives from the public. We are your Palm Bay Firefighters. Please contact us with questions related to our organization.
TO OUR MEMBERSHIP:
Welcome to our new web site. Many of the functions are currently under construction at this time and will come up shortly. Registration is not necessary for our members to access the member portion of the site. Members user name is their name on their IAFF card with an underscore between their first and last name (John_Smith). The password is your IAFF member number. Once logged in, members can change their password.
Retired members will have to register. Please use the same format for your user name (John_Smith). For any registration issues or problems contact Mike Shervington (vprankandfileunit@iaff2446.com).
We hope you enjoy the site, we feel we have given you an improved product, one that is designed to keep you up to date and informed as much as possible with not only what affects Local 2446 but you will have the opportunity to keep informed in other fire related areas as well. Comments are welcome, and as we all know when Firefighters are asked for comments, they give them. So keep them coming.
